Protecting-cover for vehicle-tires.



No. 829,496. P'ATENTED AUG. '28, 1906. R. WALLWORK.

PROTECTING COVER FOR VEHICLE TIRES. APPLICATION FILED DEO.12. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 12, 1905. Serial No. 291.411.

To all ichom/ it may concern: Be it known that I, Ronensnnon WALL- WORK, a sub'ect of the of Great Britain, .residin at street,

nion .Brid e ronworks, Roger anchester, in t e county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covers for Protecting the Tires of Vehicles, (forwhich I'have made application for Patent in Great-Britain with provisional specification No. 20,642,v bearing date October 12, 1905,) of'which the followingris a'specification.

' he invention relates to covers for protectthe tires of vehicles, more particularly.

pneumatic tires, and for preventing side slip or skidding. The object of the invention is to provide a cover of the character indicated with a wearin -surface, as herein described,

s which is capa le'of being readily renewed when required, which cover so provided forms an improvement upon the invention for which I have already obtained a patent in the United States, No. 776,570, issued December 6, 1904. In carrying out my improvements I prefer.

a to utilize small pieces, strips, or sections of material to form the main body of the tilewhich ma bandsan cover, similarly as described in the specification of the patent above referred to, but instead of attaching the wearing-plates therein named directly to the stri s or sections 1 first attach the plates to a ban or bands of leather or other suitable material andcapable of passing circumferentially round the tire out- 35.

side the strips or sections aforesaid;

The wearinglates may be formed or provided with sp es, prongs, or projections be passe throu h the band or Suchband or bands having the said Wearing- .plates attached thereto-to form the tread-of the tire maybe connectedjto the sections or strips by-any suitable means{for-example,-

by staplesso that when it is desired torenew the wearing-surface of the tire-cover the connections between the band-or bands and the sections formin the cover only require to be cut or broken, w en'the whole of the wearinglates will come away, along with the ban or hands so removed; A

The means for attaching the strips or sections forming the main body of the cover to clenched on the ar side thereof.

the wheel-rim may be as described in the specification of my former atent cited above and such means are not ereinclaimed as .new. The band or bands may be forined otherwise thanin one continuous length for Patented Aug. as, 12106.

each cover Without departing from thepecul- I iar character of the invention.

In order that the improvement may be better understood, I will proceed to describe the same with'the aid of the accompanying drawwhereinigure 11s a plan V16W"-: and Fig.2 areverse lan, of part of a tire-cover provided in accor ance with my invention. Figt 3-is' a sectional view OfljthGtSfilflQ cover, the improved band carrying' the'wearing-plates be;

mgshown in a position pri'or'to connection with .the sections forming the base of the cover. ..Fig. 4 showsthe'two parts of Fig.

connectedtogether by means ofstaples an so forming the ,completed cover. Fi". '5

shows part of a band-carrying wearing-p ates of different form to those shown in Fig. 1.

- The same; .lettersindicate' corresponding I parts wherever they occur. I

0. represents the'strips or sections for the main body ofthe cover and as describe inmy formerlp'atent aforesaid, while I) re resentslthe attachments on such sections w 'ch engage with a device for securing the coverto the rim of the wheel. y

c is the special band extending ta'ched to its surface Wearing-plates d or d;

The band 0 is shown connected to the sections a by means of staples f, passed through the two thicknesses of material and clenched on the outer surface of the band 0.

Thelates' d are shown in Fig. 3 attached to the, and c by means of prongs e on such plates which are clenched over on the far sid of such band.

Referring to Fig. 1, it will readily beseen that when the plates (1 becomeworn in use round the cover in one or more lengths an having atthe bands, to which theyare attached, may i be disconnected from the sections a, the whole of the plates upon. such bandbeing by this means removed simultaneously. A new band carrying-a new set of plates may then take the p ace of the old one, and the cover is again ready for use.

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Havingnow part'cularly described anglescertained the nature of my said invention metal wearing-plates, attached to said band and in What inanner'the same is to be perindependently of the cover, projections on 10 fo1' ned,I declare that what I claim is-, I said plates, clenched on under side of said 1n t11'ecove1*s, cover-sections, connected band, substantlallv as set forth;

5 together by staples and having attachments ROUGHSEDGE VVALLWORK.

for connection to the Wheel, a periphery-band Witnesses: on said sections, externally clenched staples, GEORGE FREDERICK GADD,

solely attaching said band to said sections, i ARTHUR GADD. 

